Human rights are commonly understood as "inalienable fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being." Human rights are thus conceived as universal (applicable everywhere) and egalitarian (the same for everyone). These rights may exist as natural rights or as legal rights, in both national and international law. The doctrine of human rights in international practice, within international law, global and regional institutions, in the policies of states and in the activities of non-governmental organizations, has been a cornerstone of public policy around the world. The idea of human rights states, "if the public discourse of peacetime global society can be said to have a common moral language, it is that of human rights." Despite this, the strong claims made by the doctrine of human rights continue to provoke considerable skepticism and debates about the content, nature and justifications of human rights to this day. Indeed, the question of what is meant by a "right" is itself controversial and the subject of continued philosophical debate.

In 2008, Page was nominated for Time's 100 Most Influential People list and placed #86 on FHM's Sexiest Women in the World list, and moved up to #70 for 2010. In June 2008, Page was named on Entertainment Weekly's future A-List stars list.

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BAGHDAD — A female human rights lawyer in the northern city of Mosul was executed by firing squad at the orders of Islamic State extremists, activists said Thursday, sparking international outrage. But she was not the first to suffer such a fate in a city where the militants’ rule is increasingly oppressive — especially for women.
Samira al-Nuaimy, known locally for her pro bono legal and humanitarian work, was executed last week, according to rights activists and residents. The United Nations said that she was killed in a public square and that her body showed signs of torture when it was returned to her

Subcommittee Hearing Ethiopia After Meles The Future of Democracy and Human Rights

Human Rights Lecture - Australian Exceptionalism: International Human Rights and Australian Law

Human Rights Lecture - Australian Exceptionalism: International Human Rights and Australian Law

Human Rights Lecture - Australian Exceptionalism: International Human Rights and Australian Law

Presented by Emeritus Professor Gillian Triggs, President of the Australian Human Rights Commission.
Australia is unique among comparable legal systems in that it has very few constitutional or legislative protections for most human rights, and has no bill of rights or rights charter. Rather, Australia has developed an ad-hoc approach to the protection of human rights through the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights, administrative law, common law and through normative culture. This fragmented approach to human rights has produced a significant gap in legal protections placing particular groups, such as asylum seekers, at risk.
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BAGHDAD — A female human rights lawyer in the northern city of Mosul was executed by firing squad at the orders of Islamic State extremists, activists said Thursday, sparking international outrage. But she was not the first to suffer such a fate in a city where the militants’ rule is increasingly oppressive — especially for women.
Samira al-Nuaimy, known locally for her pro bono legal and humanitarian work, was executed last week, according to rights activists and residents. The United Nations said that she was killed in a public square and that her body showed signs of torture when it was returned to her

Subcommittee Hearing Ethiopia After Meles The Future of Democracy and Human Rights

Human Rights Lecture - Australian Exceptionalism: International Human Rights and Australian Law

Human Rights Lecture - Australian Exceptionalism: International Human Rights and Australian Law

Human Rights Lecture - Australian Exceptionalism: International Human Rights and Australian Law

Presented by Emeritus Professor Gillian Triggs, President of the Australian Human Rights Commission.
Australia is unique among comparable legal systems in that it has very few constitutional or legislative protections for most human rights, and has no bill of rights or rights charter. Rather, Australia has developed an ad-hoc approach to the protection of human rights through the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights, administrative law, common law and through normative culture. This fragmented approach to human rights has produced a significant gap in legal protections placing particular groups, such as asylum seekers, at risk.
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The website of the "President of Russia's Council on Civil Society and Human Rights" posted a blog that was quickly taken down as if it were toxic radioactiv...

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After United Nations Press Conference 1

After United Nations Press Conference 1

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After United Nations Press Conference 2

After United Nations Press Conference 2

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Amnesty remains worried on human rights after Saudi King death

Amnesty remains worried on human rights after Saudi King death

Amnesty remains worried on human rights after Saudi King death

The Secretary General of Amnesty International says in Davos, that the death of Saudi Arabia's King was not a surprise and that Amesty remains concerned with "the complete lack of basic human rights in that country." Duration: 00:58

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Human Rights and East Timor: Remembering East Timor’s Former Political Prisoners

Human Rights and East Timor: Remembering East Timor’s Former Political Prisoners

Human Rights and East Timor: Remembering East Timor’s Former Political Prisoners

In a post-conflict society, with a still fragile justice system, establishing respect for human rights is crucial to nation-building in East Timor. An estimated 10,000 civilians, including women and children, were imprisoned, and often tortured, during the period 1975 to 1999. The Living Memory Project, founded by renowned Australian journalist Jill Jolliffe in collaboration with ASEPPOL (an association of former political prisoners), is creating a video archive to preserve their stories for a new generation of Timorese and for the human rights record.
This panel discussion tracks the progress of the Living Memory Project and explore questio

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Tainted Legacy: 9/11 and the Ruin of Human Rights

Tainted Legacy: 9/11 and the Ruin of Human Rights

Tainted Legacy: 9/11 and the Ruin of Human Rights

Amnesty International USA Executive Director William Schulz takes the Bush Administration to task for its post -9/11 record on human rights in this installme...

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David King's Post About Human Rights Etc..

David King's Post About Human Rights Etc..

David King's Post About Human Rights Etc..

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Human rights in Tunisia after elections - utalk

Human rights in Tunisia after elections - utalk

Human rights in Tunisia after elections - utalk

The prospects for human rights in Tunisia after forthcoming elections comes under the spotlight in this edition of Utalk.
The question is from Hamed in London: "How far up the agenda are Human Rights issues in the candidates' manifestos for the upcoming Tunisian elections?"
The response comes from
Amna Guellali, Director of the ==Human Rights Watch office for Tunisia and Algeria.==
She says: "In the upcoming legislative and presidential elections to be held in Tunisia in October and Novemb…
READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2014/10/17/human-rights-in-tunisia-after-elections
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BAGHDAD — A female human rights lawyer in the northern city of Mosul was executed by firing squad at the orders of Islamic State extremists, activists said Thursday, sparking international outrage. But she was not the first to suffer such a fate in a city where the militants’ rule is increasingly oppressive — especially for women.
Samira al-Nuaimy, known locally for her pro bono legal and humanitarian work, was executed last week, according to rights activists and residents. The United Nations said that she was killed in a public square and that her body showed signs of torture when it was returned to her family.
Since seizing control of the Iraqi city in June, the Islamic State has expelled religious minorities and steadily stepped up its oppression of those who remain.
New rules ban women from working in jobs other than health care and education, where they are deemed necessary to treat and teach other females.
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BAGHDAD — A female human rights lawyer in the northern city of Mosul was executed by firing squad at the orders of Islamic State extremists, activists said Thursday, sparking international outrage. But she was not the first to suffer such a fate in a city where the militants’ rule is increasingly oppressive — especially for women.
Samira al-Nuaimy, known locally for her pro bono legal and humanitarian work, was executed last week, according to rights activists and residents. The United Nations said that she was killed in a public square and that her body showed signs of torture when it was returned to her family.
Since seizing control of the Iraqi city in June, the Islamic State has expelled religious minorities and steadily stepped up its oppression of those who remain.
New rules ban women from working in jobs other than health care and education, where they are deemed necessary to treat and teach other females.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/islamic-state-executes-female-human-rights-lawyer-by-firing-squad-after-facebook-post/2014/09/25/c44b0a38-44f6-11e4-9a15-137aa0153527_story.html?Post+generic=%3Ftid%3Dsm_twitter_washingtonpost

Presented by Emeritus Professor Gillian Triggs, President of the Australian Human Rights Commission.
Australia is unique among comparable legal systems in that it has very few constitutional or legislative protections for most human rights, and has no bill of rights or rights charter. Rather, Australia has developed an ad-hoc approach to the protection of human rights through the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights, administrative law, common law and through normative culture. This fragmented approach to human rights has produced a significant gap in legal protections placing particular groups, such as asylum seekers, at risk.
During the 2013 election the Coalition Government outlined its intention of placing greater emphasis on fundamental freedoms, and restore what it sees as an imbalance of human rights in Australia. One way the Government hopes to achieve this is by amending the Racial Discrimination Act 1975. The ensuing ‘freedoms debate’ has shone a spotlight on how human rights are protected in Australia, revealing that there are very few protections for the freedoms most Australians take for granted.

Presented by Emeritus Professor Gillian Triggs, President of the Australian Human Rights Commission.
Australia is unique among comparable legal systems in that it has very few constitutional or legislative protections for most human rights, and has no bill of rights or rights charter. Rather, Australia has developed an ad-hoc approach to the protection of human rights through the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights, administrative law, common law and through normative culture. This fragmented approach to human rights has produced a significant gap in legal protections placing particular groups, such as asylum seekers, at risk.
During the 2013 election the Coalition Government outlined its intention of placing greater emphasis on fundamental freedoms, and restore what it sees as an imbalance of human rights in Australia. One way the Government hopes to achieve this is by amending the Racial Discrimination Act 1975. The ensuing ‘freedoms debate’ has shone a spotlight on how human rights are protected in Australia, revealing that there are very few protections for the freedoms most Australians take for granted.

The Secretary General of Amnesty International says in Davos, that the death of Saudi Arabia's King was not a surprise and that Amesty remains concerned with "the complete lack of basic human rights in that country." Duration: 00:58

The Secretary General of Amnesty International says in Davos, that the death of Saudi Arabia's King was not a surprise and that Amesty remains concerned with "the complete lack of basic human rights in that country." Duration: 00:58

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Human Rights and East Timor: Remembering East Timor’s Former Political Prisoners

In a post-conflict society, with a still fragile justice system, establishing respect for human rights is crucial to nation-building in East Timor. An estimated 10,000 civilians, including women and children, were imprisoned, and often tortured, during the period 1975 to 1999. The Living Memory Project, founded by renowned Australian journalist Jill Jolliffe in collaboration with ASEPPOL (an association of former political prisoners), is creating a video archive to preserve their stories for a new generation of Timorese and for the human rights record.
This panel discussion tracks the progress of the Living Memory Project and explore questions of memory, truth and justice.
Chaired by Michael Williams, with Jill Jolliffe, filmmaker Robert Connelly (Balibo, The Boys, Romulus, My Father) and Timor-Leste Ambassador to Australia Abel Guterres.
This event was presented in partnership with the Victorian Women’s Trust and was supported by the Victorian Multicultural Commission and private donors.

In a post-conflict society, with a still fragile justice system, establishing respect for human rights is crucial to nation-building in East Timor. An estimated 10,000 civilians, including women and children, were imprisoned, and often tortured, during the period 1975 to 1999. The Living Memory Project, founded by renowned Australian journalist Jill Jolliffe in collaboration with ASEPPOL (an association of former political prisoners), is creating a video archive to preserve their stories for a new generation of Timorese and for the human rights record.
This panel discussion tracks the progress of the Living Memory Project and explore questions of memory, truth and justice.
Chaired by Michael Williams, with Jill Jolliffe, filmmaker Robert Connelly (Balibo, The Boys, Romulus, My Father) and Timor-Leste Ambassador to Australia Abel Guterres.
This event was presented in partnership with the Victorian Women’s Trust and was supported by the Victorian Multicultural Commission and private donors.

The prospects for human rights in Tunisia after forthcoming elections comes under the spotlight in this edition of Utalk.
The question is from Hamed in London: "How far up the agenda are Human Rights issues in the candidates' manifestos for the upcoming Tunisian elections?"
The response comes from
Amna Guellali, Director of the ==Human Rights Watch office for Tunisia and Algeria.==
She says: "In the upcoming legislative and presidential elections to be held in Tunisia in October and Novemb…
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The prospects for human rights in Tunisia after forthcoming elections comes under the spotlight in this edition of Utalk.
The question is from Hamed in London: "How far up the agenda are Human Rights issues in the candidates' manifestos for the upcoming Tunisian elections?"
The response comes from
Amna Guellali, Director of the ==Human Rights Watch office for Tunisia and Algeria.==
She says: "In the upcoming legislative and presidential elections to be held in Tunisia in October and Novemb…
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Derivatives Market/China's Human Rights Post-Olympics

Spurred by the Wall Street crisis, the Derivatives Market soared, but what if the buble bursts? Also, have the Olympics had any effect on China's human rights?

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Human Rights Challenges in Post-Election Bosnia and Herzegovina

Human Rights Challenges in Post-Election Bosnia and Herzegovina

Human Rights Challenges in Post-Election Bosnia and Herzegovina

On Monday, December 15, 2014, the Emerging Democracies Institute (EDI) and the Advisory Council for Bosnia and Herzegovina (ACBH) co-sponsored a panel discussion in Washington, DC, titled: Human Rights Challenges in Post-Election Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The panelists were:
Amb. Jonathan Moore
Head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
Tanya L. Domi
Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University
Jasmin Mujanovic
Visiting Scholar at Columbia University Harriman Institute
The discussion was moderated by Reuf Bajrovic, the president of EDI.

Corporate Liability for Human Rights Violations Outside the US- A Day After Assessment of the Kiobel

Corporate Liability for Human Rights Violations Outside the US- A Day After Assessment of the Kiobel

Corporate Liability for Human Rights Violations Outside the US- A Day After Assessment of the Kiobel

Date of Event: October 2, 2012
On October 1, the Supreme Court held a rare hearing on Kobiel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum. The Kobiel case seemed to portend the future of the Allen Tort Statute, which had been used to hold human rights violators accountable in US courts for wrongs committed around the world. This conference is a day-after assessment of the Supreme Court argument at the intersection of human rights, environmental justice, and extraterritoriality, with a diversity of speakers:
Paul Hoffman, lead counsel for the Plaintiffs
Katie Redford, co-founder and US Office Director of EarthRights.
John B. Bellinger, Partner at Arnold & Porter

Subcommittee Hearing: Ethiopia After Meles: The Future of Democracy and Human Rights

On Monday, December 15, 2014, the Emerging Democracies Institute (EDI) and the Advisory Council for Bosnia and Herzegovina (ACBH) co-sponsored a panel discussion in Washington, DC, titled: Human Rights Challenges in Post-Election Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The panelists were:
Amb. Jonathan Moore
Head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
Tanya L. Domi
Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University
Jasmin Mujanovic
Visiting Scholar at Columbia University Harriman Institute
The discussion was moderated by Reuf Bajrovic, the president of EDI.

On Monday, December 15, 2014, the Emerging Democracies Institute (EDI) and the Advisory Council for Bosnia and Herzegovina (ACBH) co-sponsored a panel discussion in Washington, DC, titled: Human Rights Challenges in Post-Election Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The panelists were:
Amb. Jonathan Moore
Head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
Tanya L. Domi
Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University
Jasmin Mujanovic
Visiting Scholar at Columbia University Harriman Institute
The discussion was moderated by Reuf Bajrovic, the president of EDI.

Date of Event: October 2, 2012
On October 1, the Supreme Court held a rare hearing on Kobiel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum. The Kobiel case seemed to portend the future of the Allen Tort Statute, which had been used to hold human rights violators accountable in US courts for wrongs committed around the world. This conference is a day-after assessment of the Supreme Court argument at the intersection of human rights, environmental justice, and extraterritoriality, with a diversity of speakers:
Paul Hoffman, lead counsel for the Plaintiffs
Katie Redford, co-founder and US Office Director of EarthRights.
John B. Bellinger, Partner at Arnold & Porter LLP., and former Legal Advisor to the US Department of State.
Andrew Grossman, Litigator at BakerHostetler and Legal Fellow at the Heritage Foundation

Date of Event: October 2, 2012
On October 1, the Supreme Court held a rare hearing on Kobiel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum. The Kobiel case seemed to portend the future of the Allen Tort Statute, which had been used to hold human rights violators accountable in US courts for wrongs committed around the world. This conference is a day-after assessment of the Supreme Court argument at the intersection of human rights, environmental justice, and extraterritoriality, with a diversity of speakers:
Paul Hoffman, lead counsel for the Plaintiffs
Katie Redford, co-founder and US Office Director of EarthRights.
John B. Bellinger, Partner at Arnold & Porter LLP., and former Legal Advisor to the US Department of State.
Andrew Grossman, Litigator at BakerHostetler and Legal Fellow at the Heritage Foundation

Radwan Ziadeh: Becoming a Human Rights Activist

“At that time, I touched the fear. I understand the meaning of fear.”
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But gradually I became involved in politics, especially after the death of the former Syrian president, Hafez al-Assad, and his son [Bashar Assad] became president. That period was called the Damascus Spring, where many activists, many politicians start to sign and petition and ask for more freedom, more liberty. I was among the first of those who participated. We form democratic fora which have opened debate about the political reform in Syria, the freedom of press, freedom of assembly and all of that. I think it’s two things, the first one, actually, the dea

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"To break human rights" by nichonova Creepypasta

"To break human rights" by nichonova Creepypasta

"To break human rights" by nichonova Creepypasta

Something to wonder about with a twist ending after little build-up.
Story: https://www.reddit.com/r/shortscarystories/comments/3b3a8m/to_break_human_rights/

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Helen Durham, Human Rights Lawyer

Helen Durham, Human Rights Lawyer

Helen Durham, Human Rights Lawyer

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UN releases report on human rights violations in North Korea

UN releases report on human rights violations in North Korea

UN releases report on human rights violations in North Korea

UN releases report on human rights violations in North Korea 설명.
After a multi-national inquiry. a UN investigative committee issued its report. on the dire human rights situation in North Korea. Our Eoh Jin-joo has more on .
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On the 17 February the United Nations released what it called an unprecedented report on the state of human rights in the most secretive state in the world: .

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Portland Human Rights Commission meeting 7 1 15

Portland Human Rights Commission meeting 7 1 15

Portland Human Rights Commission meeting 7 1 15

The monthly Portland Human Rights Commission meeting, open to the public. Filmed on July 1st 2015 in downtown Portland Oregon
Archived previous meeting videos are here:
http://www.joeanybody.com/id4.html
A 22 minute out-take clip [from this meeting] from the HRC public comment portion and a related discussion about public access to information on or about the HRC which they are in public meeting violation and the paid staff of the HRC is neglecting the public. This has been going on for many months.
Watch the out-take here:
https://youtu.be/PR6W7Ul6nYs
And the out-take clip is also downloadable or viewable here:
https://archive.org/deta

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This Is What Council Of Europe Commissioner Told Us After Visiting Rebel-Held East Ukraine

This Is What Council Of Europe Commissioner Told Us After Visiting Rebel-Held East Ukraine

This Is What Council Of Europe Commissioner Told Us After Visiting Rebel-Held East Ukraine

“The humanitarian situation [in Eastern Ukraine] is very grave, especially in the non-government controlled area, but also in the government-controlled area near the buffer zone and the frontline”, Nils Muižnieks, the Human Rights Commissioner at the Council of Europe says after his one-day trip to separatist-controlled area in Eastern Ukraine. Speaking of challenges prosecuting war-related crimes committed by both sides of the conflict, the Commissioner stresses the utmost importance of documenting all human rights violation in the region despite the security challenges. Although he stays ‘neutral’ on the issue of reluctance of the Ukrainian

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Human Rights Defenders On Mbabazi

Human Rights Defenders On Mbabazi

Human Rights Defenders On Mbabazi

Human rights defenders have expressed concern on the manner in which the government through the police force is handling the issue of politicians aspiring for the elective posts.
the executive director Foundation for Human Rights Initiative Dr. Livingstone Sewanyana says Thursday’s arrests of former premier Amama Mbabazi and former FDC leader Col. Dr. Kiiza Besigye is a denial of freedom to political activists to reach out to the masses which is a total abuse of freedoms of expression and assembly.

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Bringing Human Rights Home: A History of Human Rights in the United States (Penn — Download

Bringing Human Rights Home: A History of Human Rights in the United States (Penn — Download

Bringing Human Rights Home: A History of Human Rights in the United States (Penn — Download

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Throughout its history, America's policies have alternatively embraced human rights, regarded them with ambivalence, or rejected them out of hand. The essays in Bringing Human Rights Home: A History of Human Rights in the United States put these shifting political winds into a larger historical perspective, from the country's very beginnings to the present day.The contributing writers examine the global influences on early American attitudes toward human rights and, reviewing the twentieth century, note the high-water mark of human rights acceptance during Franklin Delano Roosevelt's presi

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In the mid-1990s, civil war and genocide ravaged Rwanda. Since then, the country’s new leadership has undertaken a highly ambitious effort to refashion Rwanda’s politics, economy, and society, and the country’s accomplishments have garnered widespread praise. Remaking Rwanda is the first book to examine Rwanda’s remarkable post-genocide recovery in a comprehensive and critical fashion. By paying close attention to memory politics, human rights, justice, foreign relations, land use, education, and other key social institutions and practices, this volume raises serious concerns about the dep

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Bahey El Din Hassan: Human Rights after the Egyptian Revolution

Bahey El Din Hassan: Human Rights after the Egyptian Revolution

Bahey El Din Hassan: Human Rights after the Egyptian Revolution

“Anti-democratic values, even with democratic mechanisms, would lead to nothing.”

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UN Human Rights Council 29th Session Final Day

UN Human Rights Council 29th Session Final Day

UN Human Rights Council 29th Session Final Day

After three weeks of intense efforts to protect and strengthen the promotion of human rights, on Friday July 3rd The 29th Human Rights Council sessions came to an end.
One resolutions in particular drew much attention: Agenda item number 7 , the U.N. Gaza report condemning Israel for its assault on Gaza in 2014. For the first time the Euopean Union voted in favor of the resolution that demands accountability in Palestine. The resolution was adopted by the international community, only the United States voted against it.

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Ted Cruz Calls For US To Quit UN Human Rights Council After Vote Condemning Israel

Ted Cruz Calls For US To Quit UN Human Rights Council After Vote Condemning Israel

Ted Cruz Calls For US To Quit UN Human Rights Council After Vote Condemning Israel

Ted Cruz Calls For US To Quit UN Human Rights Council After Vote Condemning Israel
more:http://www.ibtimes.com/ted-cruz-calls-us-quit-un-human-rights-council-after-vote-condemning-israel-1995746

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Human Rights Asia Weekly Roundup Episode 79

Human Rights Asia Weekly Roundup Episode 79

Human Rights Asia Weekly Roundup Episode 79

In this week’s Roundup, AHRC TV begins in Sri Lanka where a Sub-Inspector and his assistant have been convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of Gerald Perera in 2004. The verdict finally came after 10 years of indictment. Another case of torture conducted by the same Sub-Inspector and several police officers of Wattala Police Station is also being currently examined. AHRC TV interviewed Gerald’s widow Padma, who has been fighting for justice for more than a decade.
Next in the programme, AHRC TV turns to the story of 14 student activists arrested in Thailand for holding a peaceful anti-coup rally. They were protesting for the end o

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Israel considers leaving UN Human Rights Council following Gaza probe

Israel considers leaving UN Human Rights Council following Gaza probe

Israel considers leaving UN Human Rights Council following Gaza probe

Israel reportedly plans to re-consider its ties with the United Nation's Human Rights Council. This, after the UN's new report slammed Tel Aviv for the last summer ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Tel Aviv is considering leaving the United Nations Human Rights Council. The statement comes in the light of a ...
Israel considers leaving UN Human Rights Council following Gaza probe
Israel considers leaving UN Human Rights Council following Gaza probe

We are facing a crisis whereby we struggle to connect with other people on a human level. Gilberto Algar-Faria argues that this is because humanity has become an identity structure which sits in contention with other identities. Yet, he argues, no human can be more human than another. His experience researching in the UK, Sri Lanka and Sweden, amongst other countries, has led him to conclude that we can reconnect with this human identity through unexpectedly simple means.
Gilberto Algar-Faria is a PhD Candidate at the University of Bristol and a Research
Associate at the Foreign Policy Centre. His research, which is primarily fieldwork-base

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Human Rights Groups Denounce US Resumption of Military Aid to Bahrain

Human Rights Groups Denounce US Resumption of Military Aid to Bahrain

Human Rights Groups Denounce US Resumption of Military Aid to Bahrain

The United States is resuming security aid to Bahrain’s military forces, saying there had been “meaningful progress” on human rights four years after the kingdom’s deadly crackdown on anti-government protesters. State department spokesman John Kirby said, “The administration has decided to lift the holds on security assistance to the Bahrain defence force and national guard that were implemented following Bahrain’s crackdown on demonstrations in 2011."
US officials did not specify what weapons, security equipment or systems would be transferred to Bahrain, but stressed that apart from items meeting a clear counter-terrorism need, the US “woul

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Israel to consider cutting ties to UN Human Rights Council

Israel to consider cutting ties to UN Human Rights Council

Israel to consider cutting ties to UN Human Rights Council

Israel is set to join the United Nations Human Rights Council as a member of the European bloc. This only a week after the UN Chief called Tel Aviv's illegal...
Israel has cut ties with the UN Human Rights Council over its investigation into Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank.
Israel severed its relations with the United Nations Human Rights Council on March 26. The Israeli government ended the relationship when the UNHRC said it ...
Israel reportedly plans to re-consider its ties with the United Nation's Human Rights Council. This, after the UN's new report slammed Tel Aviv for the last summer ...
Israel's representative wa

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Human Rights Awards Breakfast - Spotlight Tampa January, 2014

Human Rights Awards Breakfast - Spotlight Tampa January, 2014

Human Rights Awards Breakfast - Spotlight Tampa January, 2014

Tampa Police Department's various modes of transportation allows them to not only respond to calls in a quick fashion to serve the community, but also provides ...
The City of Tampa reopens one of the most popular canine friendly parks in Tampa.
28. TEDDY AWARD Ceremony This year's TEDDY AWARD Gala is honoured to host for the first time the presentation of the DAVID KATO VISION & VOICE ...
The Gulf Coast of Florida has been attracting people to her beaches for hundreds of years. The white sand, warm calm waters and relaxed atmosphere have ...
Mayor Bob Buckhorn cuts the ribbon on Tampa's premiere cigar bar and lounge.
Parents who ha

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“American human rights week.”

“American human rights week.”

“American human rights week.”

Leader in the meeting of martyrs families:
- Honest efforts of martyrs were Divinely awarded by ‪#‎martyrdom‬ and its spiritual effects reflected in society.
- June 28,1981 crime killing many officials and MPs could have defeated Revolution; but national unity led the Revolution to the right path.
- After June 28, 1981 crime, these terrorists took refuge in Saddam and united with him against Iranian nation and Iraqi people.
- The arrogant powers realized that hostility against Islamic ‪#‎Revolution‬ were futile.
- We have 17,000 martyrs fallen to terrorism, mostly civilians, women and children. But terrorists are free in countries claiming h

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US Human Rights Report Slams Iran, Cuba

US Human Rights Report Slams Iran, Cuba

US Human Rights Report Slams Iran, Cuba

The United States labeled countries such as Iran, Cuba, Myanmar and Vietnam serial human rights abusers, even as it seeks to improve relations with them, in a long-delayed annual human rights report released Thursday.
The report was released just days before the resumption of high-level nuclear talks with Tehran and weeks before the expected re-opening of embassies in Washington and Havana.
In the report, the State Department cited Iran and Cuba, along with many other nations, for violating citizens' basic freedoms in 2014.
Though the U.S. and other world powers are attempting to reach a nuclear deal with Iran by June 30, the State Departm

While North Korea is ramping up pressure after the opening of a UN office in Seoul aimed at monitoring the regime′s human rights abuses...， the visiting UN human rights chief said it is good that Pyongyang is reacting.
Wrapping up his three－day stay in Seoul， UN High Commissioner for human rights Zeid Ra′ad Al Hussein said the angry reactions by North Korea are signs that it is making more effort to engage with the issues raised by the international community.
He said the UN office in Seoul will not only monitor and document human rights violations in the North， but also engage with civil society， refugees and defectors，... and with the gover

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UN opens human rights office in Seoul to monitor N. Korea

UN opens human rights office in Seoul to monitor N. Korea

UN opens human rights office in Seoul to monitor N. Korea

The United Nations on June 22 opened a new office in Seoul to monitor North Korea's human rights record, after accusing the isolated regime of abuses "without parallel in the contemporary world" in a report published last year.
The office was formally opened in a ceremony attended by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein and South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-Se, despite Pyongyang repeatedly threatening "merciless punishment" against South Korea if the mission was launched.
South Korea urged the North to stop criticising the new UN office after it suddenly announced it would boycott next month's World University

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The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History — Download

The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History — Download

The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History — Download

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Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today’s idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. In this pioneering book, Samuel Moyn elevates that extraordinary transformation to center stage and asks what it reveals about the ideal’s troubled present and uncertain future. For some, human rights stretch back to the dawn of Western civilization, the age of the American and French Revolutions, or the post–World War II moment when the U

“At that time, I touched the fear. I understand the meaning of fear.”
TRANSCRIPT
But gradually I became involved in politics, especially after the death of the former Syrian president, Hafez al-Assad, and his son [Bashar Assad] became president. That period was called the Damascus Spring, where many activists, many politicians start to sign and petition and ask for more freedom, more liberty. I was among the first of those who participated. We form democratic fora which have opened debate about the political reform in Syria, the freedom of press, freedom of assembly and all of that. I think it’s two things, the first one, actually, the death of the son of the former president [Hafez Assad]. He has older son called Bassel Assad.
He died in a car accident in 1994. And after that, the whole country was in fear because of what the dictator Hafez Assad will do for the whole society. And I saw the fear for the first time as an actual – you can touch the fear in the eyes of the Syrians at that time. Where we were in the university, we have to go every day in the morning having flags, pictures of the dictator Hafez Assad and his son waving on his behalf and saying that we are all the sons of the dictator Hafez Assad. And we have to repeat that every day. All schools been closed for 40 years. There are no weddings. There is no – any kind of activities because the whole country should be in sadness because of the death of the son of Hafez Assad. At that time, as I said, I touched the fear.
I understand the meanings of the fear. Then I decided actually to read more and more and more in politics and became gradually involved in politics after this event. And I discovered in the human rights as a very interesting concept, and I thought that it’s very important to implement the human rights points and concepts to have an actual implementation or for all of those words to the ground. And you cannot do that without NGOs, without the human rights organization, without the human rights movements. And this pushed me to work with others to establish the human rights organization I work for.

“At that time, I touched the fear. I understand the meaning of fear.”
TRANSCRIPT
But gradually I became involved in politics, especially after the death of the former Syrian president, Hafez al-Assad, and his son [Bashar Assad] became president. That period was called the Damascus Spring, where many activists, many politicians start to sign and petition and ask for more freedom, more liberty. I was among the first of those who participated. We form democratic fora which have opened debate about the political reform in Syria, the freedom of press, freedom of assembly and all of that. I think it’s two things, the first one, actually, the death of the son of the former president [Hafez Assad]. He has older son called Bassel Assad.
He died in a car accident in 1994. And after that, the whole country was in fear because of what the dictator Hafez Assad will do for the whole society. And I saw the fear for the first time as an actual – you can touch the fear in the eyes of the Syrians at that time. Where we were in the university, we have to go every day in the morning having flags, pictures of the dictator Hafez Assad and his son waving on his behalf and saying that we are all the sons of the dictator Hafez Assad. And we have to repeat that every day. All schools been closed for 40 years. There are no weddings. There is no – any kind of activities because the whole country should be in sadness because of the death of the son of Hafez Assad. At that time, as I said, I touched the fear.
I understand the meanings of the fear. Then I decided actually to read more and more and more in politics and became gradually involved in politics after this event. And I discovered in the human rights as a very interesting concept, and I thought that it’s very important to implement the human rights points and concepts to have an actual implementation or for all of those words to the ground. And you cannot do that without NGOs, without the human rights organization, without the human rights movements. And this pushed me to work with others to establish the human rights organization I work for.

UN releases report on human rights violations in North Korea 설명.
After a multi-national inquiry. a UN investigative committee issued its report. on the dire human rights situation in North Korea. Our Eoh Jin-joo has more on .
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On the 17 February the United Nations released what it called an unprecedented report on the state of human rights in the most secretive state in the world: .

UN releases report on human rights violations in North Korea 설명.
After a multi-national inquiry. a UN investigative committee issued its report. on the dire human rights situation in North Korea. Our Eoh Jin-joo has more on .
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On the 17 February the United Nations released what it called an unprecedented report on the state of human rights in the most secretive state in the world: .

The monthly Portland Human Rights Commission meeting, open to the public. Filmed on July 1st 2015 in downtown Portland Oregon
Archived previous meeting videos are here:
http://www.joeanybody.com/id4.html
A 22 minute out-take clip [from this meeting] from the HRC public comment portion and a related discussion about public access to information on or about the HRC which they are in public meeting violation and the paid staff of the HRC is neglecting the public. This has been going on for many months.
Watch the out-take here:
https://youtu.be/PR6W7Ul6nYs
And the out-take clip is also downloadable or viewable here:
https://archive.org/details/JoeAnybodyPortlandHumanRightsMeetingViolationsJuly12015
[*Update side note the HRC website and meeting minutes were updated and posted online the very next day after it was passionately discussed here in this meeting.]

The monthly Portland Human Rights Commission meeting, open to the public. Filmed on July 1st 2015 in downtown Portland Oregon
Archived previous meeting videos are here:
http://www.joeanybody.com/id4.html
A 22 minute out-take clip [from this meeting] from the HRC public comment portion and a related discussion about public access to information on or about the HRC which they are in public meeting violation and the paid staff of the HRC is neglecting the public. This has been going on for many months.
Watch the out-take here:
https://youtu.be/PR6W7Ul6nYs
And the out-take clip is also downloadable or viewable here:
https://archive.org/details/JoeAnybodyPortlandHumanRightsMeetingViolationsJuly12015
[*Update side note the HRC website and meeting minutes were updated and posted online the very next day after it was passionately discussed here in this meeting.]

published:13 Jul 2015

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This Is What Council Of Europe Commissioner Told Us After Visiting Rebel-Held East Ukraine

“The humanitarian situation [in Eastern Ukraine] is very grave, especially in the non-government controlled area, but also in the government-controlled area near the buffer zone and the frontline”, Nils Muižnieks, the Human Rights Commissioner at the Council of Europe says after his one-day trip to separatist-controlled area in Eastern Ukraine. Speaking of challenges prosecuting war-related crimes committed by both sides of the conflict, the Commissioner stresses the utmost importance of documenting all human rights violation in the region despite the security challenges. Although he stays ‘neutral’ on the issue of reluctance of the Ukrainian government to adopt the Rome Statute that will put the war-zone in the International Criminal Court jurisdiction.
Muižnieks is concerned about reported restrictions of movement along the East Ukrainian frontline and treat them as human rights violations too: “I’ve heard a lot of allegations of corruption at those checkpoints and I’ve myself witnessed a very long lines at them. It is in Ukraine’s interest to facilitate the movement back and forth to reduce the isolation of this region. To make sure that citizens of Ukraine who live on the that side do not face under restrictions and they can come to visit their relatives, get their pensions, get their benefits.”
The Commissioner has also condemned recent violence against the Kyiv LGBT Pride participants that left over a dozen of people injured, including police officers. “People with different point of view have also the right to express themselves as long as they don’t engage in hate speech or violence. Let them have their say as well, this is what freedom of expression is about. But LGBTI persons are very vulnerable in many places in Europe, they need special political support from the elite and special protection from the police,” Nils Muižnieks adds. He ties the rising violence against Ukrainian LGBTI community with general spike of tolerance towards using force in post-revolutionary societies: “in situation of conflict and economic crisis the people are looking for scapegoats, the extremists are not being prosecuted as they should be and vulnerable groups, especially LGBTI persons, other minorities, will be the first to be scapegoated and to suffer.”
Nils Muižnieks, the Human Rights Commissioner at the Council of Europe spoke to Maxim Eristavi in Kyiv on July 4th, 2015.
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“The humanitarian situation [in Eastern Ukraine] is very grave, especially in the non-government controlled area, but also in the government-controlled area near the buffer zone and the frontline”, Nils Muižnieks, the Human Rights Commissioner at the Council of Europe says after his one-day trip to separatist-controlled area in Eastern Ukraine. Speaking of challenges prosecuting war-related crimes committed by both sides of the conflict, the Commissioner stresses the utmost importance of documenting all human rights violation in the region despite the security challenges. Although he stays ‘neutral’ on the issue of reluctance of the Ukrainian government to adopt the Rome Statute that will put the war-zone in the International Criminal Court jurisdiction.
Muižnieks is concerned about reported restrictions of movement along the East Ukrainian frontline and treat them as human rights violations too: “I’ve heard a lot of allegations of corruption at those checkpoints and I’ve myself witnessed a very long lines at them. It is in Ukraine’s interest to facilitate the movement back and forth to reduce the isolation of this region. To make sure that citizens of Ukraine who live on the that side do not face under restrictions and they can come to visit their relatives, get their pensions, get their benefits.”
The Commissioner has also condemned recent violence against the Kyiv LGBT Pride participants that left over a dozen of people injured, including police officers. “People with different point of view have also the right to express themselves as long as they don’t engage in hate speech or violence. Let them have their say as well, this is what freedom of expression is about. But LGBTI persons are very vulnerable in many places in Europe, they need special political support from the elite and special protection from the police,” Nils Muižnieks adds. He ties the rising violence against Ukrainian LGBTI community with general spike of tolerance towards using force in post-revolutionary societies: “in situation of conflict and economic crisis the people are looking for scapegoats, the extremists are not being prosecuted as they should be and vulnerable groups, especially LGBTI persons, other minorities, will be the first to be scapegoated and to suffer.”
Nils Muižnieks, the Human Rights Commissioner at the Council of Europe spoke to Maxim Eristavi in Kyiv on July 4th, 2015.
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Human rights defenders have expressed concern on the manner in which the government through the police force is handling the issue of politicians aspiring for the elective posts.
the executive director Foundation for Human Rights Initiative Dr. Livingstone Sewanyana says Thursday’s arrests of former premier Amama Mbabazi and former FDC leader Col. Dr. Kiiza Besigye is a denial of freedom to political activists to reach out to the masses which is a total abuse of freedoms of expression and assembly.

Human rights defenders have expressed concern on the manner in which the government through the police force is handling the issue of politicians aspiring for the elective posts.
the executive director Foundation for Human Rights Initiative Dr. Livingstone Sewanyana says Thursday’s arrests of former premier Amama Mbabazi and former FDC leader Col. Dr. Kiiza Besigye is a denial of freedom to political activists to reach out to the masses which is a total abuse of freedoms of expression and assembly.

published:11 Jul 2015

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Bringing Human Rights Home: A History of Human Rights in the United States (Penn — Download

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Throughout its history, America's policies have alternatively embraced human rights, regarded them with ambivalence, or rejected them out of hand. The essays in Bringing Human Rights Home: A History of Human Rights in the United States put these shifting political winds into a larger historical perspective, from the country's very beginnings to the present day.The contributing writers examine the global influences on early American attitudes toward human rights and, reviewing the twentieth century, note the high-water mark of human rights acceptance during Franklin Delano Roosevelt's presidency. They examine the domestic tensions between civil and political rights on the one hand, and economic, social, and cultural rights on the other. Taking the long view, many of the contributors emphasize the role played by social movements and grassroots activists in pressing a human rights agenda from the bottom up.The essays examine the centrality of human rights in the early and mid-twentieth-century civil rights movement, the breadth of subnational human rights activism in the face of federal inaction on a range of human rights issues, and the ways both post-9/11 developments and government responses to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina spurred grassroots activism in the United States. Several essays explore in depth the emergence of new advocacy strategies, both in the context of litigating for civil and political rights and through the lens of particular economic rights sectors, such as labor. Though the setbacks for human rights have been many, Bringing Human Rights Home demonstrates the strength and resilience of the U.S. human rights movement and offers hope for its future.

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Throughout its history, America's policies have alternatively embraced human rights, regarded them with ambivalence, or rejected them out of hand. The essays in Bringing Human Rights Home: A History of Human Rights in the United States put these shifting political winds into a larger historical perspective, from the country's very beginnings to the present day.The contributing writers examine the global influences on early American attitudes toward human rights and, reviewing the twentieth century, note the high-water mark of human rights acceptance during Franklin Delano Roosevelt's presidency. They examine the domestic tensions between civil and political rights on the one hand, and economic, social, and cultural rights on the other. Taking the long view, many of the contributors emphasize the role played by social movements and grassroots activists in pressing a human rights agenda from the bottom up.The essays examine the centrality of human rights in the early and mid-twentieth-century civil rights movement, the breadth of subnational human rights activism in the face of federal inaction on a range of human rights issues, and the ways both post-9/11 developments and government responses to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina spurred grassroots activism in the United States. Several essays explore in depth the emergence of new advocacy strategies, both in the context of litigating for civil and political rights and through the lens of particular economic rights sectors, such as labor. Though the setbacks for human rights have been many, Bringing Human Rights Home demonstrates the strength and resilience of the U.S. human rights movement and offers hope for its future.

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In the mid-1990s, civil war and genocide ravaged Rwanda. Since then, the country’s new leadership has undertaken a highly ambitious effort to refashion Rwanda’s politics, economy, and society, and the country’s accomplishments have garnered widespread praise. Remaking Rwanda is the first book to examine Rwanda’s remarkable post-genocide recovery in a comprehensive and critical fashion. By paying close attention to memory politics, human rights, justice, foreign relations, land use, education, and other key social institutions and practices, this volume raises serious concerns about the depth and durability of the country’s reconstruction. Edited by Scott Straus and Lars Waldorf, Remaking Rwanda brings together experienced scholars and human rights professionals to offer a nuanced, historically informed picture of post-genocide Rwanda—one that reveals powerful continuities with the nation’s past and raises profound questions about its future. Best Special Interest Books, selected by the American Association of School Librarians Best Special Interest Books, selected by the Public Library Reviewers

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In the mid-1990s, civil war and genocide ravaged Rwanda. Since then, the country’s new leadership has undertaken a highly ambitious effort to refashion Rwanda’s politics, economy, and society, and the country’s accomplishments have garnered widespread praise. Remaking Rwanda is the first book to examine Rwanda’s remarkable post-genocide recovery in a comprehensive and critical fashion. By paying close attention to memory politics, human rights, justice, foreign relations, land use, education, and other key social institutions and practices, this volume raises serious concerns about the depth and durability of the country’s reconstruction. Edited by Scott Straus and Lars Waldorf, Remaking Rwanda brings together experienced scholars and human rights professionals to offer a nuanced, historically informed picture of post-genocide Rwanda—one that reveals powerful continuities with the nation’s past and raises profound questions about its future. Best Special Interest Books, selected by the American Association of School Librarians Best Special Interest Books, selected by the Public Library Reviewers

After three weeks of intense efforts to protect and strengthen the promotion of human rights, on Friday July 3rd The 29th Human Rights Council sessions came to an end.
One resolutions in particular drew much attention: Agenda item number 7 , the U.N. Gaza report condemning Israel for its assault on Gaza in 2014. For the first time the Euopean Union voted in favor of the resolution that demands accountability in Palestine. The resolution was adopted by the international community, only the United States voted against it.

After three weeks of intense efforts to protect and strengthen the promotion of human rights, on Friday July 3rd The 29th Human Rights Council sessions came to an end.
One resolutions in particular drew much attention: Agenda item number 7 , the U.N. Gaza report condemning Israel for its assault on Gaza in 2014. For the first time the Euopean Union voted in favor of the resolution that demands accountability in Palestine. The resolution was adopted by the international community, only the United States voted against it.

published:04 Jul 2015

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Ted Cruz Calls For US To Quit UN Human Rights Council After Vote Condemning Israel

In this week’s Roundup, AHRC TV begins in Sri Lanka where a Sub-Inspector and his assistant have been convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of Gerald Perera in 2004. The verdict finally came after 10 years of indictment. Another case of torture conducted by the same Sub-Inspector and several police officers of Wattala Police Station is also being currently examined. AHRC TV interviewed Gerald’s widow Padma, who has been fighting for justice for more than a decade.
Next in the programme, AHRC TV turns to the story of 14 student activists arrested in Thailand for holding a peaceful anti-coup rally. They were protesting for the end of military rule and for the return of democracy. The students are currently facing charges of alleged sedition and for allegedly violating the ruling junta’s ban on political assemblies. Each student, if convicted, could face up to seven years in jail. AHRC TV interviewed Right Livelihood Award Laureate Susil Sivaraska on his views on the situation.
In Indonesia, various events were held on June 26 to commemorate International Day in Support of victims of Torture. The AHRC, along with The Commission for Disappearances and Victims of Violence, organized two days of public events in Jakarta. The seminar hosted by the two organizations drew around a hundred participants including torture victims, journalists, and human rights activists.
Torture day events were also observed in the Pakistani cities of Karachi, Lahore and Haripur. The events attracted many parliamentarians who deplored the fact that despite ratification of UN’s Convention Against Torture, Pakistan has still not enacted any law to discourage the torture in custody. AHRC interviews intern Javeria Younes about the events on June 26.
In its final story in this week’s Roundup, AHRC TV reports on events in Bangladesh. Dozens of victims of torture and their families have taken to the streets in many district headquarters to demand justice against unjust treatment by law enforcement officers. Many prominent human rights defenders and jurists also participated in a discussion at the National Press Club in Dhaka.

In this week’s Roundup, AHRC TV begins in Sri Lanka where a Sub-Inspector and his assistant have been convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of Gerald Perera in 2004. The verdict finally came after 10 years of indictment. Another case of torture conducted by the same Sub-Inspector and several police officers of Wattala Police Station is also being currently examined. AHRC TV interviewed Gerald’s widow Padma, who has been fighting for justice for more than a decade.
Next in the programme, AHRC TV turns to the story of 14 student activists arrested in Thailand for holding a peaceful anti-coup rally. They were protesting for the end of military rule and for the return of democracy. The students are currently facing charges of alleged sedition and for allegedly violating the ruling junta’s ban on political assemblies. Each student, if convicted, could face up to seven years in jail. AHRC TV interviewed Right Livelihood Award Laureate Susil Sivaraska on his views on the situation.
In Indonesia, various events were held on June 26 to commemorate International Day in Support of victims of Torture. The AHRC, along with The Commission for Disappearances and Victims of Violence, organized two days of public events in Jakarta. The seminar hosted by the two organizations drew around a hundred participants including torture victims, journalists, and human rights activists.
Torture day events were also observed in the Pakistani cities of Karachi, Lahore and Haripur. The events attracted many parliamentarians who deplored the fact that despite ratification of UN’s Convention Against Torture, Pakistan has still not enacted any law to discourage the torture in custody. AHRC interviews intern Javeria Younes about the events on June 26.
In its final story in this week’s Roundup, AHRC TV reports on events in Bangladesh. Dozens of victims of torture and their families have taken to the streets in many district headquarters to demand justice against unjust treatment by law enforcement officers. Many prominent human rights defenders and jurists also participated in a discussion at the National Press Club in Dhaka.

We are facing a crisis whereby we struggle to connect with other people on a human level. Gilberto Algar-Faria argues that this is because humanity has become an identity structure which sits in contention with other identities. Yet, he argues, no human can be more human than another. His experience researching in the UK, Sri Lanka and Sweden, amongst other countries, has led him to conclude that we can reconnect with this human identity through unexpectedly simple means.
Gilberto Algar-Faria is a PhD Candidate at the University of Bristol and a Research
Associate at the Foreign Policy Centre. His research, which is primarily fieldwork-based,
focuses on state and society in post-war Sri Lanka, where he has conducted fieldwork each
year since 2012. Gilberto holds BA and MSc degrees from the University of Leeds and
Durham University, respectively, and was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Sydney in
2014. He has served in the Army Reserve and the Royal Marines Reserve, where he qualified as a commando in 2010. Gilberto is on Twitter @AlgarFaria or email at g.j.algar-
faria@bristol.ac.uk.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx

We are facing a crisis whereby we struggle to connect with other people on a human level. Gilberto Algar-Faria argues that this is because humanity has become an identity structure which sits in contention with other identities. Yet, he argues, no human can be more human than another. His experience researching in the UK, Sri Lanka and Sweden, amongst other countries, has led him to conclude that we can reconnect with this human identity through unexpectedly simple means.
Gilberto Algar-Faria is a PhD Candidate at the University of Bristol and a Research
Associate at the Foreign Policy Centre. His research, which is primarily fieldwork-based,
focuses on state and society in post-war Sri Lanka, where he has conducted fieldwork each
year since 2012. Gilberto holds BA and MSc degrees from the University of Leeds and
Durham University, respectively, and was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Sydney in
2014. He has served in the Army Reserve and the Royal Marines Reserve, where he qualified as a commando in 2010. Gilberto is on Twitter @AlgarFaria or email at g.j.algar-
faria@bristol.ac.uk.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx

The United States is resuming security aid to Bahrain’s military forces, saying there had been “meaningful progress” on human rights four years after the kingdom’s deadly crackdown on anti-government protesters. State department spokesman John Kirby said, “The administration has decided to lift the holds on security assistance to the Bahrain defence force and national guard that were implemented following Bahrain’s crackdown on demonstrations in 2011."
US officials did not specify what weapons, security equipment or systems would be transferred to Bahrain, but stressed that apart from items meeting a clear counter-terrorism need, the US “would maintain restrictions on security sales to the Bahrain ministry of interior
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The United States is resuming security aid to Bahrain’s military forces, saying there had been “meaningful progress” on human rights four years after the kingdom’s deadly crackdown on anti-government protesters. State department spokesman John Kirby said, “The administration has decided to lift the holds on security assistance to the Bahrain defence force and national guard that were implemented following Bahrain’s crackdown on demonstrations in 2011."
US officials did not specify what weapons, security equipment or systems would be transferred to Bahrain, but stressed that apart from items meeting a clear counter-terrorism need, the US “would maintain restrictions on security sales to the Bahrain ministry of interior
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/30/human-rights-groups-denounce-us-resumption-of-military-aid-to-bahrain
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Israel is set to join the United Nations Human Rights Council as a member of the European bloc. This only a week after the UN Chief called Tel Aviv's illegal...
Israel has cut ties with the UN Human Rights Council over its investigation into Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank.
Israel severed its relations with the United Nations Human Rights Council on March 26. The Israeli government ended the relationship when the UNHRC said it ...
Israel reportedly plans to re-consider its ties with the United Nation's Human Rights Council. This, after the UN's new report slammed Tel Aviv for the last summer ...
Israel's representative was conspicuously missing when the UN Human Rights Council started a special session March 23 on the s
Israel to consider cutting ties to UN Human Rights Council
Israel to consider cutting ties to UN Human Rights Council

Israel is set to join the United Nations Human Rights Council as a member of the European bloc. This only a week after the UN Chief called Tel Aviv's illegal...
Israel has cut ties with the UN Human Rights Council over its investigation into Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank.
Israel severed its relations with the United Nations Human Rights Council on March 26. The Israeli government ended the relationship when the UNHRC said it ...
Israel reportedly plans to re-consider its ties with the United Nation's Human Rights Council. This, after the UN's new report slammed Tel Aviv for the last summer ...
Israel's representative was conspicuously missing when the UN Human Rights Council started a special session March 23 on the s
Israel to consider cutting ties to UN Human Rights Council
Israel to consider cutting ties to UN Human Rights Council

Tampa Police Department's various modes of transportation allows them to not only respond to calls in a quick fashion to serve the community, but also provides ...
The City of Tampa reopens one of the most popular canine friendly parks in Tampa.
28. TEDDY AWARD Ceremony This year's TEDDY AWARD Gala is honoured to host for the first time the presentation of the DAVID KATO VISION & VOICE ...
The Gulf Coast of Florida has been attracting people to her beaches for hundreds of years. The white sand, warm calm waters and relaxed atmosphere have ...
Mayor Bob Buckhorn cuts the ribbon on Tampa's premiere cigar bar and lounge.
Parents who have taken their children off of psychiatric drugs after seeing the dangerous effects on their child h
Human Rights Awards Breakfast - Spotlight Tampa January, 2014
Human Rights Awards Breakfast - Spotlight Tampa January, 2014

Tampa Police Department's various modes of transportation allows them to not only respond to calls in a quick fashion to serve the community, but also provides ...
The City of Tampa reopens one of the most popular canine friendly parks in Tampa.
28. TEDDY AWARD Ceremony This year's TEDDY AWARD Gala is honoured to host for the first time the presentation of the DAVID KATO VISION & VOICE ...
The Gulf Coast of Florida has been attracting people to her beaches for hundreds of years. The white sand, warm calm waters and relaxed atmosphere have ...
Mayor Bob Buckhorn cuts the ribbon on Tampa's premiere cigar bar and lounge.
Parents who have taken their children off of psychiatric drugs after seeing the dangerous effects on their child h
Human Rights Awards Breakfast - Spotlight Tampa January, 2014
Human Rights Awards Breakfast - Spotlight Tampa January, 2014

Leader in the meeting of martyrs families:
- Honest efforts of martyrs were Divinely awarded by ‪#‎martyrdom‬ and its spiritual effects reflected in society.
- June 28,1981 crime killing many officials and MPs could have defeated Revolution; but national unity led the Revolution to the right path.
- After June 28, 1981 crime, these terrorists took refuge in Saddam and united with him against Iranian nation and Iraqi people.
- The arrogant powers realized that hostility against Islamic ‪#‎Revolution‬ were futile.
- We have 17,000 martyrs fallen to terrorism, mostly civilians, women and children. But terrorists are free in countries claiming human rights.
- June 28, 81 crime, chemical attack on Sardasht 6 years later and downing Iran civilian flight on July 3, 88 samples of US and allies’ terrorism. Some believe that June 28 to July 3 should be named as “American human rights week.”
- Those trying to hide villain enmity of US and its followers through media propaganda are betraying nation and country.
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Leader in the meeting of martyrs families:
- Honest efforts of martyrs were Divinely awarded by ‪#‎martyrdom‬ and its spiritual effects reflected in society.
- June 28,1981 crime killing many officials and MPs could have defeated Revolution; but national unity led the Revolution to the right path.
- After June 28, 1981 crime, these terrorists took refuge in Saddam and united with him against Iranian nation and Iraqi people.
- The arrogant powers realized that hostility against Islamic ‪#‎Revolution‬ were futile.
- We have 17,000 martyrs fallen to terrorism, mostly civilians, women and children. But terrorists are free in countries claiming human rights.
- June 28, 81 crime, chemical attack on Sardasht 6 years later and downing Iran civilian flight on July 3, 88 samples of US and allies’ terrorism. Some believe that June 28 to July 3 should be named as “American human rights week.”
- Those trying to hide villain enmity of US and its followers through media propaganda are betraying nation and country.
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The United States labeled countries such as Iran, Cuba, Myanmar and Vietnam serial human rights abusers, even as it seeks to improve relations with them, in a long-delayed annual human rights report released Thursday.
The report was released just days before the resumption of high-level nuclear talks with Tehran and weeks before the expected re-opening of embassies in Washington and Havana.
In the report, the State Department cited Iran and Cuba, along with many other nations, for violating citizens' basic freedoms in 2014.
Though the U.S. and other world powers are attempting to reach a nuclear deal with Iran by June 30, the State Department report criticized Tehran for having the second-highest execution rate in the world "after legal proceedings that frequently didn't respect Iran's own constitutional guarantee to due process."
The report accused Iran of "severely restricting" multiple civil liberties and taking few, if any, steps to punish abusers.
"Iran continued to severely restrict civil liberties, including the freedoms of assembly, speech, religion, and press, and to execute citizens at the second highest rate in the world after legal proceedings that frequently didn't respect Iran's own constitutional guarantee to due process or international legal norms,'' the department said.
Harassment, denial
On Cuba, the State Department said that while Havana had largely eased travel restrictions in January, the government still denied passport requests for certain opposition figures or harassed them upon their return to the country.
Since announcing U.S. plans to normalize relations with the island nation, Obama administration officials have defended their outreach to Cuba as an effort to improve the human rights situation in the country after decades of isolating the communist country through an embargo and strict sanctions.
As part of the normalization process with the United States, Cuba released 53 political prisoners in January.
However, the reports noted that Cuban activists in 2014 had recorded the highest number of arbitrary arrests of dissidents in the past five years.
And, though the government in 2014 has indicated it will expand Internet and telecommunications access, it "continued to block its citizens' access to uncensored, independent information in general," the report said.
Secretary of State John Kerry said, “No country can fulfill its potential if its people are held back or, more so, beaten down by repression.”
“Despite that simple truth, these reports show that too many governments continue to tighten their grasp on free expression, association, and assembly, using increasingly repressive laws, politically motivated prosecutions and even new technologies to deny citizens their universal human rights, in the public square, and in virtual space,” he said in a written preface to the report.
Violence by extremists
The report also denounced the "brutality" of extremist groups and said "the year 2014 will be remembered as much for atrocities committed by non-state actors."
"No development has been more disturbing than the rise of groups such as Daesh," Kerry said, referring to the Islamic State group, as he unveiled the report at the State Department.
In some regions of the Middle East and Africa, violent extremists have shown zero regard for human rights and human life, Kerry said.
“Groups like ISIL burn human beings alive, barbarically behead prisoners, sell girls into slavery, and execute innocents widely and indiscriminately,” he said, using an acronym for the Islamic State group.
The world has “witnessed the brutality and nihilism of the horrific attacks by Pakistani Taliban and Boko Haram on schoolchildren, the assassinations of Charlie Hebdo journalists, and numerous outrages and killings carried out by ISIL,” Kerry said.
Governments in China, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Iran, Russia and Saudi Arabia, among others, continued to stifle free and open media and the development of civil society through the imprisonment of journalists, bloggers, and nonviolent critics, he said.
In Thailand, the military overthrew a democratically elected government, repealed the constitution, and severely limited civil liberties, he added.
Other threats to human rights noted in the report include terrorism, corruption, crackdowns on access to the Internet and information, and counter-terrorism efforts that have been used to crack down on personal freedoms.

The United States labeled countries such as Iran, Cuba, Myanmar and Vietnam serial human rights abusers, even as it seeks to improve relations with them, in a long-delayed annual human rights report released Thursday.
The report was released just days before the resumption of high-level nuclear talks with Tehran and weeks before the expected re-opening of embassies in Washington and Havana.
In the report, the State Department cited Iran and Cuba, along with many other nations, for violating citizens' basic freedoms in 2014.
Though the U.S. and other world powers are attempting to reach a nuclear deal with Iran by June 30, the State Department report criticized Tehran for having the second-highest execution rate in the world "after legal proceedings that frequently didn't respect Iran's own constitutional guarantee to due process."
The report accused Iran of "severely restricting" multiple civil liberties and taking few, if any, steps to punish abusers.
"Iran continued to severely restrict civil liberties, including the freedoms of assembly, speech, religion, and press, and to execute citizens at the second highest rate in the world after legal proceedings that frequently didn't respect Iran's own constitutional guarantee to due process or international legal norms,'' the department said.
Harassment, denial
On Cuba, the State Department said that while Havana had largely eased travel restrictions in January, the government still denied passport requests for certain opposition figures or harassed them upon their return to the country.
Since announcing U.S. plans to normalize relations with the island nation, Obama administration officials have defended their outreach to Cuba as an effort to improve the human rights situation in the country after decades of isolating the communist country through an embargo and strict sanctions.
As part of the normalization process with the United States, Cuba released 53 political prisoners in January.
However, the reports noted that Cuban activists in 2014 had recorded the highest number of arbitrary arrests of dissidents in the past five years.
And, though the government in 2014 has indicated it will expand Internet and telecommunications access, it "continued to block its citizens' access to uncensored, independent information in general," the report said.
Secretary of State John Kerry said, “No country can fulfill its potential if its people are held back or, more so, beaten down by repression.”
“Despite that simple truth, these reports show that too many governments continue to tighten their grasp on free expression, association, and assembly, using increasingly repressive laws, politically motivated prosecutions and even new technologies to deny citizens their universal human rights, in the public square, and in virtual space,” he said in a written preface to the report.
Violence by extremists
The report also denounced the "brutality" of extremist groups and said "the year 2014 will be remembered as much for atrocities committed by non-state actors."
"No development has been more disturbing than the rise of groups such as Daesh," Kerry said, referring to the Islamic State group, as he unveiled the report at the State Department.
In some regions of the Middle East and Africa, violent extremists have shown zero regard for human rights and human life, Kerry said.
“Groups like ISIL burn human beings alive, barbarically behead prisoners, sell girls into slavery, and execute innocents widely and indiscriminately,” he said, using an acronym for the Islamic State group.
The world has “witnessed the brutality and nihilism of the horrific attacks by Pakistani Taliban and Boko Haram on schoolchildren, the assassinations of Charlie Hebdo journalists, and numerous outrages and killings carried out by ISIL,” Kerry said.
Governments in China, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Iran, Russia and Saudi Arabia, among others, continued to stifle free and open media and the development of civil society through the imprisonment of journalists, bloggers, and nonviolent critics, he said.
In Thailand, the military overthrew a democratically elected government, repealed the constitution, and severely limited civil liberties, he added.
Other threats to human rights noted in the report include terrorism, corruption, crackdowns on access to the Internet and information, and counter-terrorism efforts that have been used to crack down on personal freedoms.

While North Korea is ramping up pressure after the opening of a UN office in Seoul aimed at monitoring the regime′s human rights abuses...， the visiting UN human rights chief said it is good that Pyongyang is reacting.
Wrapping up his three－day stay in Seoul， UN High Commissioner for human rights Zeid Ra′ad Al Hussein said the angry reactions by North Korea are signs that it is making more effort to engage with the issues raised by the international community.
He said the UN office in Seoul will not only monitor and document human rights violations in the North， but also engage with civil society， refugees and defectors，... and with the governments of the region.

While North Korea is ramping up pressure after the opening of a UN office in Seoul aimed at monitoring the regime′s human rights abuses...， the visiting UN human rights chief said it is good that Pyongyang is reacting.
Wrapping up his three－day stay in Seoul， UN High Commissioner for human rights Zeid Ra′ad Al Hussein said the angry reactions by North Korea are signs that it is making more effort to engage with the issues raised by the international community.
He said the UN office in Seoul will not only monitor and document human rights violations in the North， but also engage with civil society， refugees and defectors，... and with the governments of the region.

The United Nations on June 22 opened a new office in Seoul to monitor North Korea's human rights record, after accusing the isolated regime of abuses "without parallel in the contemporary world" in a report published last year.
The office was formally opened in a ceremony attended by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein and South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-Se, despite Pyongyang repeatedly threatening "merciless punishment" against South Korea if the mission was launched.
South Korea urged the North to stop criticising the new UN office after it suddenly announced it would boycott next month's World University Games, also known as the Universade, in the southern city of Gwangju.
In a message emailed to the Gwangju Universiade organising committee last week, a North Korean sports official said the UN office in Seoul drove inter-Korean relations to "the extreme situation" and "cooled down our atmosphere to participate in the games".
"Less than 50 miles from here lies another world marked by the utmost deprivation," Hussein said in a statement to mark the opening, according to Yonhap news agency.
"Tens of thousands of Korean people have escaped that reality and through hazardous means reached a new life in (South Korea). But millions remain trapped in the grip of a totalitarian system which not only denies their freedom but increasingly their basic survival needs," he added.
The United Nations proposed opening the field office following a searing report by a UN commission published in 2014 that concluded North Korea was committing human rights violations "without parallel in the contemporary world".
Based on the testimony of hundreds of North Korean exiles, the commission detailed a vast network of prison camps holding up to 120,000 people and documented cases of torture, summary executions and rape.
The report formed the basis of a resolution adopted by the UN General Assembly urging the Security Council to consider referring Pyongyang to the International Criminal Court.
Pyongyang has categorically rejected the findings of the UN commission, labelling it a work of fiction authored by the United States and its allies.
Cross-border tensions have remained high this year due to a series of North Korean ballistic missile tests, nuclear threats and annual US-South Korean military exercises.
Pyongyang sees the joint drills, most recently carried out in March and April, as a rehearsal for invasion.

The United Nations on June 22 opened a new office in Seoul to monitor North Korea's human rights record, after accusing the isolated regime of abuses "without parallel in the contemporary world" in a report published last year.
The office was formally opened in a ceremony attended by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein and South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-Se, despite Pyongyang repeatedly threatening "merciless punishment" against South Korea if the mission was launched.
South Korea urged the North to stop criticising the new UN office after it suddenly announced it would boycott next month's World University Games, also known as the Universade, in the southern city of Gwangju.
In a message emailed to the Gwangju Universiade organising committee last week, a North Korean sports official said the UN office in Seoul drove inter-Korean relations to "the extreme situation" and "cooled down our atmosphere to participate in the games".
"Less than 50 miles from here lies another world marked by the utmost deprivation," Hussein said in a statement to mark the opening, according to Yonhap news agency.
"Tens of thousands of Korean people have escaped that reality and through hazardous means reached a new life in (South Korea). But millions remain trapped in the grip of a totalitarian system which not only denies their freedom but increasingly their basic survival needs," he added.
The United Nations proposed opening the field office following a searing report by a UN commission published in 2014 that concluded North Korea was committing human rights violations "without parallel in the contemporary world".
Based on the testimony of hundreds of North Korean exiles, the commission detailed a vast network of prison camps holding up to 120,000 people and documented cases of torture, summary executions and rape.
The report formed the basis of a resolution adopted by the UN General Assembly urging the Security Council to consider referring Pyongyang to the International Criminal Court.
Pyongyang has categorically rejected the findings of the UN commission, labelling it a work of fiction authored by the United States and its allies.
Cross-border tensions have remained high this year due to a series of North Korean ballistic missile tests, nuclear threats and annual US-South Korean military exercises.
Pyongyang sees the joint drills, most recently carried out in March and April, as a rehearsal for invasion.

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Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today’s idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. In this pioneering book, Samuel Moyn elevates that extraordinary transformation to center stage and asks what it reveals about the ideal’s troubled present and uncertain future. For some, human rights stretch back to the dawn of Western civilization, the age of the American and French Revolutions, or the post–World War II moment when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was framed. Revisiting these episodes in a dramatic tour of humanity’s moral history, The Last Utopia shows that it was in the decade after 1968 that human rights began to make sense to broad communities of people as the proper cause of justice. Across eastern and western Europe, as well as throughout the United States and Latin America, human rights crystallized in a few short years as social activism and political rhetoric moved it from the hallways of the United Nations to the global forefront. It was on the ruins of earlier political utopias, Moyn argues, that human rights achieved contemporary prominence. The morality of individual rights substituted for the soiled political dreams of revolutionary communism and nationalism as international law became an alternative to popular struggle and bloody violence. But as the ideal of human rights enters into rival political agendas, it requires more vigilance and scrutiny than when it became the watchword of our hopes.

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Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today’s idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. In this pioneering book, Samuel Moyn elevates that extraordinary transformation to center stage and asks what it reveals about the ideal’s troubled present and uncertain future. For some, human rights stretch back to the dawn of Western civilization, the age of the American and French Revolutions, or the post–World War II moment when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was framed. Revisiting these episodes in a dramatic tour of humanity’s moral history, The Last Utopia shows that it was in the decade after 1968 that human rights began to make sense to broad communities of people as the proper cause of justice. Across eastern and western Europe, as well as throughout the United States and Latin America, human rights crystallized in a few short years as social activism and political rhetoric moved it from the hallways of the United Nations to the global forefront. It was on the ruins of earlier political utopias, Moyn argues, that human rights achieved contemporary prominence. The morality of individual rights substituted for the soiled political dreams of revolutionary communism and nationalism as international law became an alternative to popular struggle and bloody violence. But as the ideal of human rights enters into rival political agendas, it requires more vigilance and scrutiny than when it became the watchword of our hopes.

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BAGHDAD — A female human rights lawyer in the northern city of Mosul was executed by firing squad at the orders of Islamic State extremists, activists said Thursday, sparking international outrage. But she was not the first to suffer such a fate in a city where the militants’ rule is increasingly oppressive — especially for women.
Samira al-Nuaimy, known locally for her pro bono legal and humanitarian work, was executed last week, according to rights activists and residents. The United Nations said that she was killed in a public square and that her body showed signs of torture when it was returned to her family.
Since seizing control of the Iraqi city in June, the Islamic State has expelled religious minorities and steadily stepped up its oppression of those who remain.
New rules ban women from working in jobs other than health care and education, where they are deemed necessary to treat and teach other females.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/islamic-state-executes-female-human-rights-lawyer-by-firing-squad-after-facebook-post/2014/09/25/c44b0a38-44f6-11e4-9a15-137aa0153527_story.html?Post+generic=%3Ftid%3Dsm_twitter_washingtonpost

Human Rights Lecture - Australian Exceptionalism: International Human Rights and Australian Law

Presented by Emeritus Professor Gillian Triggs, President of the Australian Human Rights C...

published:19 Sep 2014

Human Rights Lecture - Australian Exceptionalism: International Human Rights and Australian Law

Human Rights Lecture - Australian Exceptionalism: International Human Rights and Australian Law

Presented by Emeritus Professor Gillian Triggs, President of the Australian Human Rights Commission.
Australia is unique among comparable legal systems in that it has very few constitutional or legislative protections for most human rights, and has no bill of rights or rights charter. Rather, Australia has developed an ad-hoc approach to the protection of human rights through the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights, administrative law, common law and through normative culture. This fragmented approach to human rights has produced a significant gap in legal protections placing particular groups, such as asylum seekers, at risk.
During the 2013 election the Coalition Government outlined its intention of placing greater emphasis on fundamental freedoms, and restore what it sees as an imbalance of human rights in Australia. One way the Government hopes to achieve this is by amending the Racial Discrimination Act 1975. The ensuing ‘freedoms debate’ has shone a spotlight on how human rights are protected in Australia, revealing that there are very few protections for the freedoms most Australians take for granted.

On Monday, December 15, 2014, the Emerging Democracies Institute (EDI) and the Advisory Co...

published:16 Dec 2014

Human Rights Challenges in Post-Election Bosnia and Herzegovina

Human Rights Challenges in Post-Election Bosnia and Herzegovina

On Monday, December 15, 2014, the Emerging Democracies Institute (EDI) and the Advisory Council for Bosnia and Herzegovina (ACBH) co-sponsored a panel discussion in Washington, DC, titled: Human Rights Challenges in Post-Election Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The panelists were:
Amb. Jonathan Moore
Head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
Tanya L. Domi
Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University
Jasmin Mujanovic
Visiting Scholar at Columbia University Harriman Institute
The discussion was moderated by Reuf Bajrovic, the president of EDI.

Corporate Liability for Human Rights Violations Outside the US- A Day After Assessment of the Kiobel

Date of Event: October 2, 2012
On October 1, the Supreme Court held a rare hearing on Kobi...

published:11 Aug 2014

Corporate Liability for Human Rights Violations Outside the US- A Day After Assessment of the Kiobel

Corporate Liability for Human Rights Violations Outside the US- A Day After Assessment of the Kiobel

Date of Event: October 2, 2012
On October 1, the Supreme Court held a rare hearing on Kobiel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum. The Kobiel case seemed to portend the future of the Allen Tort Statute, which had been used to hold human rights violators accountable in US courts for wrongs committed around the world. This conference is a day-after assessment of the Supreme Court argument at the intersection of human rights, environmental justice, and extraterritoriality, with a diversity of speakers:
Paul Hoffman, lead counsel for the Plaintiffs
Katie Redford, co-founder and US Office Director of EarthRights.
John B. Bellinger, Partner at Arnold & Porter LLP., and former Legal Advisor to the US Department of State.
Andrew Grossman, Litigator at BakerHostetler and Legal Fellow at the Heritage Foundation

“At that time, I touched the fear. I understand the meaning of fear.”
TRANSCRIPT
But gr...

published:15 Jul 2015

Radwan Ziadeh: Becoming a Human Rights Activist

Radwan Ziadeh: Becoming a Human Rights Activist

“At that time, I touched the fear. I understand the meaning of fear.”
TRANSCRIPT
But gradually I became involved in politics, especially after the death of the former Syrian president, Hafez al-Assad, and his son [Bashar Assad] became president. That period was called the Damascus Spring, where many activists, many politicians start to sign and petition and ask for more freedom, more liberty. I was among the first of those who participated. We form democratic fora which have opened debate about the political reform in Syria, the freedom of press, freedom of assembly and all of that. I think it’s two things, the first one, actually, the death of the son of the former president [Hafez Assad]. He has older son called Bassel Assad.
He died in a car accident in 1994. And after that, the whole country was in fear because of what the dictator Hafez Assad will do for the whole society. And I saw the fear for the first time as an actual – you can touch the fear in the eyes of the Syrians at that time. Where we were in the university, we have to go every day in the morning having flags, pictures of the dictator Hafez Assad and his son waving on his behalf and saying that we are all the sons of the dictator Hafez Assad. And we have to repeat that every day. All schools been closed for 40 years. There are no weddings. There is no – any kind of activities because the whole country should be in sadness because of the death of the son of Hafez Assad. At that time, as I said, I touched the fear.
I understand the meanings of the fear. Then I decided actually to read more and more and more in politics and became gradually involved in politics after this event. And I discovered in the human rights as a very interesting concept, and I thought that it’s very important to implement the human rights points and concepts to have an actual implementation or for all of those words to the ground. And you cannot do that without NGOs, without the human rights organization, without the human rights movements. And this pushed me to work with others to establish the human rights organization I work for.

published:15 Jul 2015

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"To break human rights" by nichonova Creepypasta

Something to wonder about with a twist ending after little build-up.
Story: https://www.re...

published:15 Jul 2015

"To break human rights" by nichonova Creepypasta

"To break human rights" by nichonova Creepypasta

Something to wonder about with a twist ending after little build-up.
Story: https://www.reddit.com/r/shortscarystories/comments/3b3a8m/to_break_human_rights/

published:15 Jul 2015

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Helen Durham, Human Rights Lawyer

...

published:14 Jul 2015

Helen Durham, Human Rights Lawyer

Helen Durham, Human Rights Lawyer

published:14 Jul 2015

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UN releases report on human rights violations in North Korea

UN releases report on human rights violations in North Korea 설명.
After a multi-national i...

published:13 Jul 2015

UN releases report on human rights violations in North Korea

UN releases report on human rights violations in North Korea

UN releases report on human rights violations in North Korea 설명.
After a multi-national inquiry. a UN investigative committee issued its report. on the dire human rights situation in North Korea. Our Eoh Jin-joo has more on .
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On the 17 February the United Nations released what it called an unprecedented report on the state of human rights in the most secretive state in the world: .

published:13 Jul 2015

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Portland Human Rights Commission meeting 7 1 15

The monthly Portland Human Rights Commission meeting, open to the public. Filmed on July 1...

published:13 Jul 2015

Portland Human Rights Commission meeting 7 1 15

Portland Human Rights Commission meeting 7 1 15

The monthly Portland Human Rights Commission meeting, open to the public. Filmed on July 1st 2015 in downtown Portland Oregon
Archived previous meeting videos are here:
http://www.joeanybody.com/id4.html
A 22 minute out-take clip [from this meeting] from the HRC public comment portion and a related discussion about public access to information on or about the HRC which they are in public meeting violation and the paid staff of the HRC is neglecting the public. This has been going on for many months.
Watch the out-take here:
https://youtu.be/PR6W7Ul6nYs
And the out-take clip is also downloadable or viewable here:
https://archive.org/details/JoeAnybodyPortlandHumanRightsMeetingViolationsJuly12015
[*Update side note the HRC website and meeting minutes were updated and posted online the very next day after it was passionately discussed here in this meeting.]

published:13 Jul 2015

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This Is What Council Of Europe Commissioner Told Us After Visiting Rebel-Held East Ukraine

“The humanitarian situation [in Eastern Ukraine] is very grave, especially in the non-gove...

published:13 Jul 2015

This Is What Council Of Europe Commissioner Told Us After Visiting Rebel-Held East Ukraine

This Is What Council Of Europe Commissioner Told Us After Visiting Rebel-Held East Ukraine

“The humanitarian situation [in Eastern Ukraine] is very grave, especially in the non-government controlled area, but also in the government-controlled area near the buffer zone and the frontline”, Nils Muižnieks, the Human Rights Commissioner at the Council of Europe says after his one-day trip to separatist-controlled area in Eastern Ukraine. Speaking of challenges prosecuting war-related crimes committed by both sides of the conflict, the Commissioner stresses the utmost importance of documenting all human rights violation in the region despite the security challenges. Although he stays ‘neutral’ on the issue of reluctance of the Ukrainian government to adopt the Rome Statute that will put the war-zone in the International Criminal Court jurisdiction.
Muižnieks is concerned about reported restrictions of movement along the East Ukrainian frontline and treat them as human rights violations too: “I’ve heard a lot of allegations of corruption at those checkpoints and I’ve myself witnessed a very long lines at them. It is in Ukraine’s interest to facilitate the movement back and forth to reduce the isolation of this region. To make sure that citizens of Ukraine who live on the that side do not face under restrictions and they can come to visit their relatives, get their pensions, get their benefits.”
The Commissioner has also condemned recent violence against the Kyiv LGBT Pride participants that left over a dozen of people injured, including police officers. “People with different point of view have also the right to express themselves as long as they don’t engage in hate speech or violence. Let them have their say as well, this is what freedom of expression is about. But LGBTI persons are very vulnerable in many places in Europe, they need special political support from the elite and special protection from the police,” Nils Muižnieks adds. He ties the rising violence against Ukrainian LGBTI community with general spike of tolerance towards using force in post-revolutionary societies: “in situation of conflict and economic crisis the people are looking for scapegoats, the extremists are not being prosecuted as they should be and vulnerable groups, especially LGBTI persons, other minorities, will be the first to be scapegoated and to suffer.”
Nils Muižnieks, the Human Rights Commissioner at the Council of Europe spoke to Maxim Eristavi in Kyiv on July 4th, 2015.
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published:13 Jul 2015

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Human Rights Defenders On Mbabazi

Human rights defenders have expressed concern on the manner in which the government throug...

published:11 Jul 2015

Human Rights Defenders On Mbabazi

Human Rights Defenders On Mbabazi

Human rights defenders have expressed concern on the manner in which the government through the police force is handling the issue of politicians aspiring for the elective posts.
the executive director Foundation for Human Rights Initiative Dr. Livingstone Sewanyana says Thursday’s arrests of former premier Amama Mbabazi and former FDC leader Col. Dr. Kiiza Besigye is a denial of freedom to political activists to reach out to the masses which is a total abuse of freedoms of expression and assembly.

published:11 Jul 2015

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Bringing Human Rights Home: A History of Human Rights in the United States (Penn — Download

Bringing Human Rights Home: A History of Human Rights in the United States (Penn — Download

Bringing Human Rights Home: A History of Human Rights in the United States (Penn — Download

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Throughout its history, America's policies have alternatively embraced human rights, regarded them with ambivalence, or rejected them out of hand. The essays in Bringing Human Rights Home: A History of Human Rights in the United States put these shifting political winds into a larger historical perspective, from the country's very beginnings to the present day.The contributing writers examine the global influences on early American attitudes toward human rights and, reviewing the twentieth century, note the high-water mark of human rights acceptance during Franklin Delano Roosevelt's presidency. They examine the domestic tensions between civil and political rights on the one hand, and economic, social, and cultural rights on the other. Taking the long view, many of the contributors emphasize the role played by social movements and grassroots activists in pressing a human rights agenda from the bottom up.The essays examine the centrality of human rights in the early and mid-twentieth-century civil rights movement, the breadth of subnational human rights activism in the face of federal inaction on a range of human rights issues, and the ways both post-9/11 developments and government responses to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina spurred grassroots activism in the United States. Several essays explore in depth the emergence of new advocacy strategies, both in the context of litigating for civil and political rights and through the lens of particular economic rights sectors, such as labor. Though the setbacks for human rights have been many, Bringing Human Rights Home demonstrates the strength and resilience of the U.S. human rights movement and offers hope for its future.

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In the mid-1990s, civil war and genocide ravaged Rwanda. Since then, the country’s new leadership has undertaken a highly ambitious effort to refashion Rwanda’s politics, economy, and society, and the country’s accomplishments have garnered widespread praise. Remaking Rwanda is the first book to examine Rwanda’s remarkable post-genocide recovery in a comprehensive and critical fashion. By paying close attention to memory politics, human rights, justice, foreign relations, land use, education, and other key social institutions and practices, this volume raises serious concerns about the depth and durability of the country’s reconstruction. Edited by Scott Straus and Lars Waldorf, Remaking Rwanda brings together experienced scholars and human rights professionals to offer a nuanced, historically informed picture of post-genocide Rwanda—one that reveals powerful continuities with the nation’s past and raises profound questions about its future. Best Special Interest Books, selected by the American Association of School Librarians Best Special Interest Books, selected by the Public Library Reviewers

published:09 Jul 2015

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Bahey El Din Hassan: Human Rights after the Egyptian Revolution

“Anti-democratic values, even with democratic mechanisms, would lead to nothing.”...

published:08 Jul 2015

Bahey El Din Hassan: Human Rights after the Egyptian Revolution

Bahey El Din Hassan: Human Rights after the Egyptian Revolution

“Anti-democratic values, even with democratic mechanisms, would lead to nothing.”

published:08 Jul 2015

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UN Human Rights Council 29th Session Final Day

After three weeks of intense efforts to protect and strengthen the promotion of human righ...

published:04 Jul 2015

UN Human Rights Council 29th Session Final Day

UN Human Rights Council 29th Session Final Day

After three weeks of intense efforts to protect and strengthen the promotion of human rights, on Friday July 3rd The 29th Human Rights Council sessions came to an end.
One resolutions in particular drew much attention: Agenda item number 7 , the U.N. Gaza report condemning Israel for its assault on Gaza in 2014. For the first time the Euopean Union voted in favor of the resolution that demands accountability in Palestine. The resolution was adopted by the international community, only the United States voted against it.

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Ted Cruz Calls For US To Quit UN Human Rights Council After Vote Condemning Israel

Ted Cruz Calls For US To Quit UN Human Rights Council After Vote Condemning Israel
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published:04 Jul 2015

Ted Cruz Calls For US To Quit UN Human Rights Council After Vote Condemning Israel

Ted Cruz Calls For US To Quit UN Human Rights Council After Vote Condemning Israel

Ted Cruz Calls For US To Quit UN Human Rights Council After Vote Condemning Israel
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Human Rights Asia Weekly Roundup Episode 79

In this week’s Roundup, AHRC TV begins in Sri Lanka where a Sub-Inspector and his assistan...

published:03 Jul 2015

Human Rights Asia Weekly Roundup Episode 79

Human Rights Asia Weekly Roundup Episode 79

In this week’s Roundup, AHRC TV begins in Sri Lanka where a Sub-Inspector and his assistant have been convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of Gerald Perera in 2004. The verdict finally came after 10 years of indictment. Another case of torture conducted by the same Sub-Inspector and several police officers of Wattala Police Station is also being currently examined. AHRC TV interviewed Gerald’s widow Padma, who has been fighting for justice for more than a decade.
Next in the programme, AHRC TV turns to the story of 14 student activists arrested in Thailand for holding a peaceful anti-coup rally. They were protesting for the end of military rule and for the return of democracy. The students are currently facing charges of alleged sedition and for allegedly violating the ruling junta’s ban on political assemblies. Each student, if convicted, could face up to seven years in jail. AHRC TV interviewed Right Livelihood Award Laureate Susil Sivaraska on his views on the situation.
In Indonesia, various events were held on June 26 to commemorate International Day in Support of victims of Torture. The AHRC, along with The Commission for Disappearances and Victims of Violence, organized two days of public events in Jakarta. The seminar hosted by the two organizations drew around a hundred participants including torture victims, journalists, and human rights activists.
Torture day events were also observed in the Pakistani cities of Karachi, Lahore and Haripur. The events attracted many parliamentarians who deplored the fact that despite ratification of UN’s Convention Against Torture, Pakistan has still not enacted any law to discourage the torture in custody. AHRC interviews intern Javeria Younes about the events on June 26.
In its final story in this week’s Roundup, AHRC TV reports on events in Bangladesh. Dozens of victims of torture and their families have taken to the streets in many district headquarters to demand justice against unjust treatment by law enforcement officers. Many prominent human rights defenders and jurists also participated in a discussion at the National Press Club in Dhaka.

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Israel considers leaving UN Human Rights Council following Gaza probe

Israel reportedly plans to re-consider its ties with the United Nation's Human Rights Coun...

published:30 Jun 2015

Israel considers leaving UN Human Rights Council following Gaza probe

Israel considers leaving UN Human Rights Council following Gaza probe

Israel reportedly plans to re-consider its ties with the United Nation's Human Rights Council. This, after the UN's new report slammed Tel Aviv for the last summer ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Tel Aviv is considering leaving the United Nations Human Rights Council. The statement comes in the light of a ...
Israel considers leaving UN Human Rights Council following Gaza probe
Israel considers leaving UN Human Rights Council following Gaza probe

Venice's Rousey kept the fight a stand-up battle and first hurt Correia significantly with a big right hand, followed by a hard left punch to the face. She then landed a knee to the body, then finished Correia with a short right hand to the temple ...Ronda Rousey, right, defeats Bethe Correia at UFC 190in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil....

Uncertainty surrounded the fate of another lion from Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park Saturday after a conservation group reported that Jericho, brother of the lion slain by American dentist Walter Palmer, had also been killed ... “We are absolutely heart broken. We will update you all as soon as we have more details,” the statement added ... Hwange park authorities were unavailable for confirmation ... AFP. ....

PARIS. Ending the crisis that has seen thousands of attempts by migrants to reach England from Calais in recent weeks is a "top priority", the interior ministers of France and Britain wrote in a joint statement Sunday ... "Tackling this situation is the top priority for the UK and French governments ... At least 10 migrants have died attempting the dangerous journey since June ... "Our border is secure, and there is no easy way into the UK." ... ....

Despite persistent humanrights concerns, the US on Sunday resumed formal security talks with Egypt that were last held six years ago ... That aid had been on hold until earlier this year due to humanrights and democracy concerns in the wake of the military overthrow of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in 2013 ... have imperfect rights records....

HRW - HumanRightsWatch) ... Three family members, who said they were present when Israeli soldiers fatally shot Falah Abu Marya in the chest after shooting and wounding his son, told HumanRights Watch that the soldiers opened fire against both men without facing real danger ... The stitches were visible when HumanRights Watch interviewed him in Beit Omar on July 25....

U.S ...The U.S ... direct foreign investment ... Kerry described what amounts to a U.S. balancing act in seeking to press Egypt on elections, humanrights and economic reforms while working closely on a range of other issues such as fighting terrorism, especially Islamic State ... A Mild Rebuke ... The senators urged Kerry in a letter in late July to make political reform, humanrights and fundamental freedoms a “central element” of the talks ... The U.S ... ....

Ezra Levant is being persecuted — again — by the humanrights industry ... The hypocrisy of modern humanrights activists amazes me ... Despite insisting that fundamental humanrights (including freedom of speech) are sacred to them, the denizens of humanrights commissions and special interest groups are only too happy to use whatever institutional means are available to silence those who disagree with their worldview....

Iran has launched a sophisticated smear campaign against the UN special rapporteur investigating its humanrights violations by widely spreading a fabricated WikiLeaks cable purporting to show he received bribes from Saudi Arabia... He recently joined other humanrights activists in calling on Iran’s president, Hassan Rouhani, to follow his nuclear deal success with humanrights progress....

DC LabourRights, a humanrights campaign group, is made up of a dozen Discovery BayCollege students who manage to balance schoolwork with activism ... In June that year, the Institute for Global Labour and HumanRights (The Institute), a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to defending the rights of workers, published a report about VTech's humanrights abuses of workers in its Chinese factories....

The case against the three journalists, as well as several others being tried in absentia, has been harshly criticised by humanrights groups and legal experts, as has the years-long imprisonment of at least 18 other journalists in Egypt's overcrowded jails ...Despite a worsening humanrights environment, the United States lifted its freeze on military aid to Egypt in March....

Despite continuing humanrights concerns in Egypt, the Obama administration is increasing military assistance to the country as it confronts growing threats from extremists, particularly in the Sinai Peninsula... military assistance to Egypt also had been on hold until earlier this year due to humanrights and democracy concerns in the wake of the military overthrow of Islamist PresidentMohammed Morsi in 2013....

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